...framing under it; while the administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied,...adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. The Constitution is a complex organism, dividing power and checking and balancing the various elements...

...under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied...adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil...

...result."130 Lincoln has already appealed in his First Inaugural Address to "the Almighty Ruler of nations," "Christianity," and "a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land." Having already referred to the Creator as desirous for men to be self-governing, Lincoln concludes...

...Basler 1953 -55, 4:433-35. 79. Norton 1986,19-32,304-14. Cf. Lincoln, in his first inaugural, urging "firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land" (Basler 1989 [1946], 588). On Lincoln's relation of religious providence and national unity, see also...

...tribunal, the American people." In that dark hour Lincoln's solution was civil religion pure and simple: "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty."24 But before the war had progressed very far, Lincoln evidently began to rethink these...

...Lord," Theodore Roosevelt once said of his candidacy; in his first inaugural, Abraham Lincoln invoked "intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm...Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land" as a means for dealing with the crisis of secessionl.10 In the same vein, a progressive newspaper editor,...

...Inaugural Address, pp. 565-568 to Washington, DC His first inaugural address prompted the nation to have "a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land." Again and again throughout the war he reverted to the idea that behind all the struggles and losses...

...under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied...adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil...

...Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who arc dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there...adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil...

...under it; while the new administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied...adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In YOUR hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in MINE, is the momentous issue of civil...